Weekend reads

Actor, writer and BG member TARA DESHPANDE TENNEBAUM delves into age-old recipes from the colonial days that have either died out or are slowly being revived and relished

A happy buzz awaits at the ongoing Sichuan food festival at boutique hotel, Sofitel Mumbai BKC’s all-day dining Pondichéry Café.

For a long time consumers had become used to difficult technology, difficult-to-use machines, cantankerous gadgets.

RUPALI DEAN quizzes top chefs on their favourite foodie destinations

With a global community of over 1 billion users, Instagram has become the place where people across the world come together to create unique content, engage with the people they love and connect.

Years ago I read this quatrain; liked it and eventually forgot. But while reading Aruna Joshi’s The Happiness Manual, almost erased memory of these four lines suddenly became verdant and those words again got emblazoned on the celluloid of my mind. Yes, this book by Aruna should be read.

A clear diagnosis of the causation of basic and subtle problems (trivid duhkha – three sorrows produced by the thinking that the viewer and views are same), and their total solution is possible through Yoga.

How often do we feel uninspired, emotionally drained, being in a vacuum of sorts? How often do we feel that in spite of trying to move at the fastest pace, we still are at the same place from where we started? The reason is that we have created a virtual self confinement called ‘the comfort zone’, writes Aparna Kapoor

Demonstrated this week in the story of the Hapur woman in UP, who is in a Delhi hospital, battling 80 per cent self-inflicted burns. She set herself ablaze last month.